NEW YORK, Sept 24, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Australian alternative rocker Nick Cave
thrilled fans Monday by announcing a new album entitled “Ghosteen,” which he
said is set to drop next week.
Cave announced the double album on his website in a post responding to a
fan wondering when to expect new music from the gothic frontman of Nick Cave
and the Bad Seeds.
“The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second
album are their parents,” said the singer-composer known for the unsparing
emotional intensity of his lyrics.
“Ghosteen is a migrating spirit.”
Part 1 is to include eight songs, while the second portion will feature two
long songs “linked by a spoken word piece,” the 62-year-old said.
He did not specify the date the album would come out.
Ghosteen is set to be the band’s first album since 2016’s “Skeleton Tree,”
which delved into heavy material like the shock death of Cave’s teenage son.
Cave also shared the album art depicting a utopian jungle-like landscape
bathed in soft light and bordered with lush vegetation and colorful flowers.